On Thursday’s Mark Levin Show, we have a Memorandum of Understanding with Iran requiring another 60 days of negotiations. The full details remain unreleased and unseen, which makes premature celebration impossible. If it is done and will be signed in 48-72 hours, let’s see it. The core concern is long-term enforcement, given Iran’s history as a terrorist regime that has never abided by any agreement, and exists to destroy the West and non-compliant Muslims through funding groups like Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis. How effective will enforcement be post-Trump presidency, especially under Democrats. We have the enemy where we want it. We may never again. It was right to attack them, and in a few weeks’ time they were on their back. We hit the brakes for 9 weeks. First the Israelis and then we went back to military action this week, and the regime was badly damaged beyond the original damage. Rather than destroy it, including arming the Iranian people, we have an MOU and future negotiations. Also, Roger Zakheim, Director of the Ronald Reagan Institute, calls in and details the lack of any trustworthy record from the Iranian regime, warning that the deal may not be worth the paper it’s written on despite the U.S. having weakened Iran through Operation Epic Fury and economic blockade pressure. Any worthwhile agreement must reverse the JCPOA by demanding zero enrichment, ending the missile program, halting support for terrorist groups like Hezbollah, and ensuring open Straits. Later, Rep Jamie Raskin is already leading a plot to impeach the President if the Democrats take the House. Republicans should move to expel Jamie Raskin from the House. If he can continue to abuse our constitutional system and undermine our electoral process (ironic, since he blames Trump and Republicans for doing so), having led every effort described above, then take the necessary steps to charge him under the expulsion clause. Finally, Rep Bryan Steil calls in to discuss his three-year investigation into potential fraud at ActBlue, particularly its weak fraud prevention standards that allow foreign funds into U.S. elections.
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Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. While we have a deal. I think a deal before a deal. Remember, this deal is a memorandum of understanding of of sorts. For 60 days more of negotiation. Not a single person talking about this right now knows what’s in the deal other than certain news reports on certain aspects that leaders are talking about. But none of us have seen it. None of us. I don’t know who else has seen. It’s not been released yet. That tells me it hasn’t been finalized yet because otherwise when I release it, I can’t celebrate something I haven’t read. Number two, that’s number one. To me, it’s always been about enforcement. And the question is, in enforcement in the next year or two or three under the president, because I think he would enforce it. The question is the enforcement. For five, ten, 15 years from now. That’s the issue with me, because we know that this regime is a terrorist regime. We know that has never, never abided by a single agreement has ever signed of any kind. We know that after last June, when we hit their nuclear sites, they immediately began rebuilding their nuclear program, re rebuilding their ballistic missile program. And as I’ve said over and over and over again, even if they sign an agreement and even if the agreement is the greatest of any agreement that’s ever been written, they have no intention of complying with it because they can’t. They exist. They exist to destroy you and me. They exist to destroy the West. They exist to destroy any faith that isn’t theirs. And any Muslim that doesn’t comply with their fundamentalist 77th century primitive ideology. That’s why they kill their own people who dare to raise even questions. And rape them and torture them. That’s why they funded Hezbollah, which has killed our people, as has Iran, our Marines, our embassy personnel. That’s why they have funded and supported Hamas. And the hotels. And we can go on and on. But why should I? You know exactly what I’m talking about. So the question is, what’s in the deal? That would be helpful, don’t you think? Most of it is. And. What’s the enforcement mechanism and is it an enforcement mechanism that will be enforced against this enemy? After the Trump presidency, we now have a Democratic president. It won’t be. In fact, they may rip up the whole deal. It should be a treaty, but it’s not going to be treated as a treaty because the Obama deal wasn’t treated as a treaty. Lindsey Graham, who so many of you get angry about it. He has said it’s a deal that needs to come before Congress. Graham is right. That’s what the Constitution provides. The question is, will it? And remember whatever we do. Or don’t do will be noted by the Democrats, and they’ll do the same thing, especially if it means skirting the Constitution. Okay. So there’s more to be done. Now, this would be in Malibu, a memorandum of understanding that requires, as I understand it, another 60 days of negotiation. We also read some reports indicating that. Many of the countries that were said to have agreed to it didn’t even know that it was agreed to yet. Including the state of Israel, including other states. It was negotiated by Qatar, I believe, as a mediator. Qatar that has spent $400 billion trying to. Undermine our country, undermine our educational system. They create all kinds of disunity in our country. They’ve been very effective at it. Pakistan has been involved. They’re aligned with Saudi Arabia. That was behind 911. They’re aligned with Russia. I don’t know why Turkey has a role in anything. Everyone is a genocidal maniac. Who has an alliance of sorts with Iran, as Qatar does. So all this is going on will be very interested in knowing the substance and seeing it. And even if it’s the greatest deal of all deals of any deal in the history of deals, which would be great. I am telling you right now. That the enemy will not comply with it in the end. And this is what troubles me. Putting everything else aside. I don’t want our kids and grandkids. I don’t want the next generation to have to deal with Iran that has 10,000 ballistic missiles and does in fact have the ability to put nuclear warheads on those ballistic missiles that will be able to reach that country maybe at some point hypersonic missiles? I don’t know. Because this is a regime that will use them. The president has said it, and the president is correct. What I see here. Is this president unique? From all the others before him. Courageous beyond all the others before him has brought us to a point where we can destroy the regime. In fact, the bombing in the last two nights demonstrated it. And, you know, it’s interesting. The first night of bombing, Iran started firing ballistic missiles at some of the Arab countries, but it didn’t fire any additional ballistic missiles at Israel. Why was that? Because they knew Netanyahu wouldn’t stand for it. That’s why. So here we have him over a barrel, so to speak. I know we’re worried about the price of oil and we’re worried about the stock market and all these other things. But what this demonstrated to me with the Israelis first and then us. Two nights in a row. Look how quickly we could bring them to their knees. Look how quickly. Now imagine if we were going to knock them out. Imagine if we were going to knock them out. And imagine if we arm the Iranian people. The president talks about the Kurds and he’s not had very nice things to say about the Kurds. Well on the Iranian people. After half a century of having intelligence and working with other countries that have intelligence there, we know which Iranian people might want to be armed. It could coalesce. We might even know how to break into the army itself and create various factions. And I’m not talking about the IRGC. AGC, That’s different. That’s like the SS. And so people are talking about, isn’t it great we have a deal. We don’t even know what’s in the deal. But from my perspective, president will do what the president thinks is right. He’s brought us to this point. I just feel like we’ve been on the five yard line for nine weeks. And to me, it underscores the fact that rather than the cease fire, we should have continued. We should have finished them off. I’d be very curious to see how how this MRU treats Hamas. If Hamas is brought within the MCU as Iran wants, then you know it’s a complete loser deal. Hamas has killed. Our Marines, our soldiers. Embassy staff. You know, prior to 911, Hamas was the biggest killer of Americans. Period. In terms of terrorism. And Hamas is Iran. Hamas has destroyed Lebanon, the Lebanese people. Want them out. The Israelis want him out because they keep shooting missiles in Israel and killing their people. And of course, the Iranians, the people, the people of Iran, they want them out, too, because they know this is the most important arm. Of the Iranian regime and they want it to survive through the process. So there’s a lot to look for. There’s a lot to talk about. But I stick to my my basic premise. This regime cannot be trusted. In the next five, ten, 15 years, it will break out. Prove me wrong. If I’m wrong, where’s the evidence? Anywhere that I’m wrong. Where is the evidence? Anywhere that they will adhere to an agreement. In the out years? Certainly. Where is it they’re going to defy their own reason for existing. Which is to impose their will, especially on the United States, the big Satan. They know wave election cycles. They know what the Democrats think. They know what isolationists think. What the weasels think. They don’t think we have the will to enforce this, certainly not after Trump. And I have to tell you, I don’t think we do. Certainly the Democrats don’t. They’re busy nominating Nazis and Marxists and Islamists with ties to al Qaeda. I mean, they’re out of their minds. We’ll be right back.
Segment 2
It’s difficult to have discuss a memorandum of understanding that’s not public, precise terms of which we do not know. If it’s done, it will be signed in 48 to 72 hours. Let’s see it regardless of terms. Regardless of the terms. This is important. My understanding is that there’s another 60 day period of negotiation. I assume that involves the particulars. My view has not changed because the Iranian regime is what it is. That is, it will violate whatever final agreement is signed, certainly after the end of the Trump administration. And I doubt any future president, certainly not a Democrat, will enforce it, which would require military action. Which would require a military reaction. And I don’t think we’ll ever be in this kind of a position again to do what needs to be done. We have the enemy. Where we want it is right to attack them. And in a few weeks time, they were on their back. We hit the brakes for nine weeks. We went back to military action this week. The regime was badly damaged beyond the original. Damage rather than destroy it. Including arming the Iranian people. We apparently have an M.O.. You. So beyond that. There’s really nothing to comment on until we learn more. You know. Does that make sense to you, Mr. Producer? Yeah. All we have right now are. Broadsides. Here we have the president cut one. Go. Just had a big day. I know you’ll never be satisfied, but that’s okay. It doesn’t bother me at all. We just made a great settlement in the war with Iran, and we’re going to be subject to finalization of documents. We should get done over the next few days. We’ll probably have a signing, maybe in Europe. And it’s a great thing. Stock markets are up a thousand points. And that means, like the DLC, that means 11, the market goes down, which they like it, but it’s been up oil, shrub oil will start coming down to, I think, even lower than it was before. We had I said I was in Iowa, it was $1.85 a gallon in that area. But going to get them and we’re going to get pretty close going to come down. And when oil comes down, everything else comes down. And most importantly, we have a deal that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, which was our purpose. And what we had to go through to get this is a big, very big thing. But we have a signing. So and the documents are in pretty final shape. So we’ll see. We’ll stay very good. It should be done and that should be done pretty quickly. They want to. Every bit as much as everybody else wants. And I think a lot of good relationships get into from that said, you spoke with the leaders of many of the countries that were mentioned in the release. I just want to be, as I’m sure they had great heads of nations Qatar, UAE and Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait and others. And I’m going to be talking to Turkey. President Erdogan is great. And and it’s really a wonderful thing with a lot of spirit. Pakistan was fantastic. The prime minister and the I call him the general. He’s a general. He’s a great, great general is so great that they he’s actually a field marshal with a step above. And they’re all very happy. The whole Middle East is happy and long beyond the Middle East. Australia will open as soon as we ever sign. Just based on what our president said there, it sounds like they did a deal on he announced it and now he’s calling the heads of state to tell them about It is not Sunday. Mr.. It is. That’s what it sounds like to me. So sort of a, if you will, a lobbying effort in any country that objects. You can imagine if Israel had a problem with it. They probably feel the wrath, but I don’t know. I’m not there. I’m not there. There’s much more on this and we’ll cover it. And there’s other things I want to get to tonight as well. But this is front and center again. We can’t go over the particulars because we don’t have them. But I do know the and you do, too. The Iranian regime does not honor its word. So this is going is this going to be a piece in our time moment? Is there going to be something better? What will we get from the regime? We get compliance. Self-control. It will decide that. Okay? We’re not going to destroy the rest of the world, okay? We’re not worried about the 12th Imam showing up, okay? All I didn’t really tell us to destroy all these these Westerners. I don’t think so.
Segment 3
I may be viewed as a hawk today, but one day while I’m around or not, whether it matters or not, if remembered or not, I will be viewed as a dove because I am certain. As night follows day. That Iran will violate the agreement. As night follows day, I am certain it will violate the agreement. And if you think honestly and seriously and you’re truthful to yourself, you know I’m right. So we all want to celebrate something we don’t have the details about yet. I understand that the stock market’s up, Oil prices are going down, I suppose. I don’t know. I guess. And those are good things. But that’s not the point, is it? That would eventually come anyway, I would hope. History’s a funny thing. The same window rarely opens twice. You understand what I mean by that? That means when there’s a historic decision to make. It can go one way or another. And usually you get one chance. Those of you. We had a caller last night that said, look, I don’t want boots on the ground. We don’t have boots on the ground in that respect. But if in seven or eight years this regime muscles up with the help of the communist Chinese, and they’ll helping with the help of the North Koreans, and they will help them with the help of the Russians, and they will help them with the help with the Pakistanis. And they have helped them. They have seven, eight, nine, 10,000 ballistic missiles. Imagine. They can reach the continental United States. They already can reach every capital in Europe. And we had underestimated that. And they have nuclear warheads. What the hell are our kids going to do? What the hell will our grandkids do? I’m just asking you, what will they do? This is the nightmare I fear the most. This is why I keep talking about this. The price of a gallon of gasoline. The stock markets up, the stock market goes up, the stock market goes down, the selling price goes up. The gasoline price goes down. What in the world is the next generation going to do? When communist China is on the move. That access is on the move. We’ve got these internal enemies. That are weakening us from within. This is our generation that that’s responsible for stopping it. Right. What are we going to do? And then the Iranians. Armed up. What do you know? They lied. And what do you know, the Democrat president or some Republican president, for that matter? Didn’t take the steps necessary to stop them. What do you know? I know enough about history to know that for a relatively long period of time, Winston Churchill, in his own words, was in the wilderness, the political wilderness, the governmental wilderness. He made some mistakes as a minister. But he repeatedly made the point. He saw the Third Reich early on. He saw Hitler early on. He said they’re building up. They’re a threat to the continent. No, no. What the hell’s wrong with you, Winston? His party didn’t take him seriously. You blew it before. We don’t want to hear from you now. You know how articulate Churchill was. He was writing. He was speaking. He wasn’t silent, but he was dismissed. He was dismissed. Neville Chamberlain was a very smooth talker. Considered a great diplomat. When he came back with that peace agreement with Hitler and peace in our time and waved it around, he was celebrated. Celebrate. And Hitler was the only one not celebrating him. Him and a few others and said, No, no. Do you understand what you’ve done? Rather than our country getting on a war footing and building up our military and our defenses. We’re hiding behind this piece of paper. Hiding behind this piece of paper. Now, here’s the thing. Iran is not Germany. It’s not Japan. It’s not Italy. It’s not as strong as any of those countries were. But nuclear missiles, that’s the great equalizer. So we’ve made the effort and correctly so. Militarily to attack them. And we took out their navy. We in the Israelis, we took out their air force. We in the Israelis. Now there’s more to do. Obviously, we hit the brakes. After two or three weeks. We wanted to see if we could negotiate a deal. It was a two week cease fire that went to nine weeks. So it wasn’t really a cease fire because there’s a lot of shooting going on, especially from Hezbollah and Israel. And we can get into that later or another day. Long story short, this has been a hell of a week for the Israelis. And we admonish them. 11 ballistic missiles shot into Israel. And we disparaged the Prime Minister. And Israel for doing it. They shoot down one of our helicopters and they pay a heavy, heavy price. Well, why is that? Well that for another day, too, because there’s something wrong with that. Both should have been supported. Both. Now, we were going to bomb Iran again tonight and tonight. In Iran. It is approximately 1241 in the morning. And literally within a few hours of making that proclamation, we have a deal from memorandum of understanding, which we haven’t seen yet as the public. And I don’t think other countries have seen they’ve been briefed on it. The fact is, we can destroy this regime if we want to. It’s not. Germany. It’s not. Imperial Japan. It’s not Stalin in the Soviet Union. It’s not China and Mao or G. It’s already on its back. Turning its back. The military activity we undertook was not intended to destroy it was intended to bring it back to the table and get them to sign a deal. Whereas I have felt. The continuing military operations should be not to get them back to sign a deal, but to destroy them or an unconditional surrender. But that’s not the way it’s playing out, is it? And what I’m saying is the next generation, our children will not have this opportunity. It won’t happen again. I’m not a warmonger. I’m quite the opposite. I’m worried deeply. About bigger wars with bigger weapons. And a draft. In which our children or grandchildren. Well, I have to go overseas and fight them. When we have them exactly where we want right now. I’m telling you the truth. And this is my great concern. President Trump today cut two. And I think we did get two. Did we, Rich? Cut to go. Mr. President, on Iran, how confident are you that there will be a signing this weekend? Because you have come close to sealing a deal, but at the last minute, they have fallen apart. You know, what’s interesting about this question wouldn’t be my first question would be when are we going to see the details of the deal? Well, if you’re a reporter, aren’t you curious about that? Aren’t you curious about it, folks? Go ahead. Yeah. Maybe this weekend. And has the supreme leader approved this deal? I understand that the answer is yes. And when the time when this deal is signed, is the United States going to immediately lift the blockade? Yes. Is this part of the deal? And it’s just boil price is dropping like a rock and forever. You are fully secure. But hold on now, when you do that, that means, I assume, that the oil that Iran will be free to Saudi oil, too. Right. Unless there’s some restriction. Again, I want to see the details, but I assume that’s case that’ll immediately have hundreds of millions of dollars a day flowing into the regime, you understand? Go ahead. The discussions about the nuclear materials and the nuclear negotiations was actually on that. And nobody’s getting close to it because it’s buried under a mountain of nature, which is B-2 bombers. And it is low down now. Now, I don’t know what that means, but that sounds like we’re not going to go in and get it because it’s buried from the B-2 bombers before. So that’s. Interesting to me. We used to talk about going in and getting the nuclear dust right, which. Well, maybe we’re not. I don’t know. I don’t know the details, but I’m listening to the response. Go ahead. Iran committed to not pursuing a nuclear weapon or will there be more negotiations on that down? They will not have a nuclear weapon. They’ve agreed to that. There will be no. Which is the whole reason, which is a big part of the reason that the agreement and they will not only not have and they will not purchase and develop in any way, any shape, in any way, shape or form a nuclear weapon, they will not have a nuclear weapon. Well, unfortunately, hindsight is called hindsight for a reason. We’ll see about that. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
I honestly felt we’re dealing with Iran, so we’re dealing with pure evil. This is breaking now from something called the Hormuz letter. Iran’s foreign ministry directly rejects Trump’s new claim that, quote, Everyone in Iran has approved the deal, unquote, including the supreme leader, saying no one has accepted it and, quote, no agreement has been reached, unquote, per Fars. One of their news outlets. Any agreement requires the US to, quote, accept every demand unquote from Iran, including that it won’t surrender enriched uranium or make nuclear concessions that the Strait of Hormuz remains permanently under Iranian management and the transfer of $24 billion in frozen funds. Iran adds, quote, If I were to yield under pressure, it would have done so a year ago, unquote, rather than after a sustained U.S. bombing. Now, I don’t know if this is accurate or not. But I’m reading directly from it. The spokesperson also denied Trump’s claim that the Strait of Hormuz would reopen on a deal signing. Saying it, quote, remains closed, unquote, under Iranian authority and quote, Safe passage is not possible, unquote. Now, I don’t know what this means. That’s why you’re going to get whiplash if you don’t. You know, we don’t have the terms. We don’t know exactly what’s going on. I’d like to know more. I don’t know more. I think this is going to be ever changing. Ever changing. At least for now. How do I know? Because it. It’s just wreckage. Something crazy. All right, let’s go to President Trump. Cut three. Go on. That. You have said before that Iran and the United States were close to a deal. It has not happened yet. Why are you so convinced that this time is different? Because they’ve taken a pounding. They’ve taken a pounding like very few people could take. And they want to make the deal a lot more than I do. And we could have had it done the other way, I guess, but it would have taken longer. They they got hit very hard recently, as you know. And I don’t like to have to do things that way, but I felt it was necessary. It’s a great deal for the United States and for the Middle East and I think ultimately great for Iran, because they’ll be able to build up in their country and their country. I really believe it’s a regime change because I find these people to be much more rational than the people that are no longer with us. We knocked out the first team of leadership. The second team of leadership is a different group, is a different level, and I think it’s frankly a smarter level and it’s a level that has reason. And they’ve all approved the deal and everybody’s is approving the deal now. We’ll get it finished up and hopefully that will be done. We will not have Iran having a nuclear weapon, which is very important to these people. We have the problem is the administration doesn’t have any control over it. When the next administration comes in. We’ll be right back.
